Assoc Prof Angelique Chan Wei-Ming

Founding Director & Senior Advisor, Centre for Ageing Research and Education (CARE), Duke-NUS Medical School
Associate Professor, Signature Research Programme in Health Services Research & Population Health, Duke-NUS Medical School
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

A/Prof Angelique Chan holds joint tenure appointments as Associate Professor in the Programme in Health Services Research & Population Health (HSRPH), Duke-NUS Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

A/Professor Chan is the founding Director and Senior Advisor of the Centre for Ageing Research and Education at Duke-NUS Medical School. She is also Director of the Tsao Foundation Ageing Research Initiative which is housed within the Department of Sociology. A/Professor Chan has developed and nurtured a strong research portfolio in ageing research. This portfolio contains projects that are multidisciplinary and focus on the following themes: the social determinants of health, caregiving, long term care, dementia, and the evaluation of programmes providing health and community social services to the older adult community. She has led several major projects on ageing in Singapore including large-scale longitudinal national surveys which have led to recommendations in policy research and public policy making. Her work has been published in over 150 journal publications, and she has co-edited 3 books related to low fertility (internationally) and population ageing in Singapore. She is extensively involved in international work related to ageing and health of older adults. She currently works with colleagues from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia. She has worked as an international expert for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations.